Time

How can sculpture explore the relation between the human and the non-human? Wanda Wieser's artistic practice investigates the relation between matter and meaning, alchemy and the corporeal power of geological processes and objects.

What is time? Has our relation to temporality changed time? Norwegian philosopher Espen Hammer talks to four by three about our shifting time consciousness, Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas about circular time, the promises and dissatisfactions with modern times and how art might be the key to new existential possibilities.

What is slow cinema? Ira Jaffe, professor emeritus at the University of Mexico, explores through numerous distinguished directors, such as Lisandro Alonso, Robert Bresson, Pedro Costa and Bela Tarr, how slow movies resist motion and emotion, while foregrounding the aesthetics and duration of the human condition & cinema itself.

Have theorists of personal identity wrongly assumed the nature of time to be sequential and thereby limited our account of self? Mihnea Chiujdea identifies an alternative conception of temporality, found in the work of Martin Heidegger, as necessary to approach the paradoxes inherent in our selfhood.

Have we lost our rootedness? Philosopher Simon Glendinning reflects on the question of education in the technological era, drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche and John Dewey, he echoes Heidegger's concern of 'What really is happening in our age?', while asking whether it will overwhelm us or cultivate new heights and depths.

How does a promise of the infinite affect us as finite beings? Can finitude itself open up a mystical experience of the transcendent? Artist Hans-Jacob Schmidt evokes the figure of a quarry as a site of doubt, faith and border between these two realms.

Are artists, consumers and critics guilty of a stubborn addiction to the past or have we become too obsessed with the new? Music critic Giuseppe Zevolli ties Holly Herndon's album Platform to the wider phenomenon of nostalgia for the past, while confronting her experimental compositions in the here and now.

Where does inspiration come from and how can you maintain it? Canadian singer-songwriter Lydia Ainsworth’s music defies easy classification. She talks to four by three about her album Right from Real, working on and dreaming about the future and how to maintain your creativity over a long period of time.